(Must reside within 45 miles of Clarksdale)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides individual Community Support Services (CSS) services in the community.

• Assists clients in developing goals for treatment within the first 30 days of service.

• Assists clients in restoring, rehabilitating, and developing social and interpersonal skills.

• Identify, enhance, and establish support networks, community awareness, coping strategies, and improve functioning in the individuals social environments (home, work, school).

• Help restore, rehabilitate, and support the development of daily living skills.

• Help improve each client's self-management of the negative effects of psychiatric or emotional symptoms.

• Assists clients in identifying, effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors ("triggers") that lead to functional impairments.

• Help implement Crisis Management Plan on an ongoing basis.

• Participate in collaborative meetings with Mississippi Behavioral Health Services staff, other agencies or community and natural supports as needed.

• Provide Crisis Intervention services to recipients as needed according to agency policies, procedures, and service definitions.

• Communicate client's status on a regular basis, including, but not limited to changes in mood or functioning, medical issues and all crisis and health and safety issues.

• Be knowledgeable of and adept at producing effective, clinical documentation of every contact with recipient.

• Turning in notes on time according to policy. Document all ''no shows," and communicate all difficulties contacting clients with appropriate office staff.

• Be able, or willing to learn, to use computer interface to complete documentation for billing or other purposes as needed.

• Attend all office trainings as well as regular clinical supervision sessions with Clinical Manager and/or Case Manager.

• Document services provided regularly, concisely, and completely in accordance with clinical standards by office deadline.

• Return phone calls promptly.

• Follow all safety rules.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Has a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science degree in a mental health related field; or

• Ts Credentialed as a Community Support Specialist by the Mississippi Department ofMental Health.